Major Events
As a result of the French and Indian War, Great Britain had huge debts and one way to solve that problem was by...
Taxing the colonist
How did many colonists react to the Stamp Act?
They protested and organized groups like the Sons of Liberty.
Which British workers were tarred by Colonist as a form of protest?
Tax collectors
Who were Patriots?
American colonists who rebelled against Great Britain
Triple points
Declaration of Independence influenced enslaved people to
seek/want their own freedom
A conflict between British troops stationed in Boston and colonial dockworkers on March 5th, 1770 where 5 colonist were killed is known as
The Boston Massacre
This Act(law) required Colonist to pay a tax on printed items without having a say in government decisions.
Stamp Act
What event is considered the start of the American Revolution?
The battles of Lexington and Concord
Who were Loyalists?
American colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain
What was an impact of the Revolutionary war on native Americans?
They lost most of their lands.
ALSO
Weakened alliances: Native groups who supported the British were left without British protection.
The Boston Tea party was
a protest led by colonists against British where colonist dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
This tax lowered the cost of tea that the British East India Company sold in hopes that the colonists would not buy smuggled tea but would instead accept the taxed tea.
The Tea Act(tax/law)
double points
What event showed the colonists were willing to openly protest British taxation?
The Boston Tea Party
Who were Neutralist?
Colonist who did not choose a side leading up to the American Revolution
On November 1775, the leader of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, said that any Black person who was...
Black person who was enslaved and ran away from their owner to join the British side would be free.
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?
It banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
The Intolerable Acts was passed to punish the colonist following which major event?
The Boston Tea Party
This document formally announced the colonies’ break from Great Britain.
The Declaration of Independence
Someone who felt that England had the right to tax but did not agree with how they were going about things would have been a
Neutralist
This group of people have been historically oppressed is known as
A marginalized group
The Quartering Act required colonists to do what?
House British soldiers and provide them with supplies
The phrase “no taxation without representation” means that colonists believed—
They should have a voice in the government that taxed them
This group was an organized movement of Patriots (against the British) throughout the colonies
Sons of Liberty
A colonist who would have wanted to remain a British citizen would be called a
Loyalist
Which side of the war did most enslaved Africans choose to fight on? and why?
Most enslaved Africans chose to side with the British during the American Revolution because the British offered freedom to enslaved people who escaped their enslavers to joined the British army.